"When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight)." Carl Jung

He knows he does not feel things the way human beings do. He tries. But he is not certain that he wants to be like them, anyway. An exploration of David: before, during, and after the events of Prometheus.

Blind faith doesn't always lead to the light. Love doesn't always choose the ideal companion. Human and Synthetic. She journeys for answers; he searches for purpose and the elusive existence of his soul. Desire binds them, darkness will test them, but fate could tear them apart.

My Beautiful Little Mermaid. She appeared dead if it weren't for the way her claws had twitched, etching mysterious marks into the glass, her pointed teeth glowing white through the putrid stink of the water. A terrible smile. Like she had a secret.

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform." -Ada Lovelace, An Account of the Analytical Engine, 1842. David lied when he said he wasn't familiar with the concept of "want." AU.